Tamarind Group CEO, Jonathan Seex, Dies in Ethiopian flight Et 302

Tamarind Group CEO was among the 157 people who died after the Ethiopian Airlines plane crush on Sunday morning.

Reporting on their Facebook page, Tamarind Group has said “It is with immense shock and grief to inform you of the tragic news that Tamarind CEO Jonathan Seex was on the ill-fated Ethiopian Airlines flight. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends, the Tamarind community and all the others who have suffered unfathomable losses.”

The plane was plane was en route to Nairobi from Addis by the time of its crash killing all the 157 people on board.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Jonathan Leex took over the helm of Tamarind Group in January 2018 serving the high end high-end hotels operator for barely 14 months.

Others who died include 32 Kenyans, 18 Canadians, nine Ethiopians, eight Italians, eight Chinese citizens, eight Americans, seven British citizens, seven French citizens, six Egyptians, five Dutch citizens, four Indians, four people from Slovakia, three Austrians, three Swedes, three Russians, two Moroccans, two Spaniards, two Poles, two Israelis; Belgium, Indonesia, Somalia, Norway, Serbia, Togo, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sudan, Uganda and Yemen each had one citizen onboard.

Four other people using United Nations passports also died in the crash but their nationalities are yet to be established.